Long-term Workhouse Inmates in Newington St Mary Parish, Surrey, 1861
In 1861, the Poor Law Board published a return of the name every adult pauper who had been a workhouse inmate for a continuous period of five years or more, together with the duration of their residence (in years and months), the reason for it, and whether they had been brought up in a District or separate Workhouse School. It was noted that the term 'District School' had been widely misinterpreted by respondents as meaning any school in the local area, such as a national or private school, and that there was only one instance in the whole report of an inmate actually having been in such a school.
Name | Yrs | ms. | Reason | School |
---|---|---|---|---|
Jacob Alltimes | 14 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
John Able | 12 | 0 | Disabled from paralysis | no. |
Thomas Allen | 5 | 0 | Old and unable to support himself | no. |
Deborah Anderson | 30 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Frances Adams | 10 | 0 | Old age and loss of husband | no. |
Maria Aubin | 5 | 0 | Illness | no. |
Martha Adcock | 5 | 0 | Old age and loss of husband | no. |
Harriett Abbott | 6 | 0 | Old age and not brought up to any kind of work | no. |
Elizabeth Atkinson | 5 | 0 | Old age and loss of property | no. |
James Amos | 10 | 0 | Old and unable to work | no. |
William Brown | 6 | 0 | Illness and infirmity | no. |
Sarah Brown | 10 | 0 | Illness | no. |
George Bolton | 12 | 0 | Unsound mind | no. |
David Burry | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
John Burgess | 10 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
George Bunnage | 5 | 0 | Crippled | no. |
William Brooks | 5 | 0 | Blindness | no. |
James Barker | 5 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Mary Ann Bolton | 12 | 0 | Old age and disabled | no. |
Mary Ann Bowker | 12 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Susan Bristow | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Mary Ann Barley | 6 | 0 | Illness | no. |
Susan Carr | 8 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Catherine Craine | 17 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
Mary Collins | 8 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Hannah Cure | 6 | 0 | Illness | no. |
Eliza Chaplain | 20 | 0 | Weak mind | no. |
Eliza Collier | 25 | 0 | Unsound mind | no. |
Elizabeth Cooper | 5 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Mary Collis | 9 | 0 | Illness and old age | no. |
Richard Dunn | 5 | 0 | Old and imbecile | no. |
Ann East | 5 | 0 | Illness | no. |
Frances Elliott | 9 | 0 | Nervous and weak intellect | no. |
Archibald Elliott | 6 | 0 | Unsound mind | no. |
Harriet Frampton | 5 | 0 | Old age and illness | no. |
Mary Fox | 10 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Harriett Fielder | 5 | 0 | Old and imbecile | no. |
Mary Ford | 5 | 0 | Illness | no. |
James Giles | 16 | 0 | Unsound mind | no. |
Arthur Gill | 10 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Samuel Gazey | 6 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Ann Gill | 8 | 0 | Illness and old age | no. |
Sarah Gannon | 22 | 0 | Old age and disabled arm | no. |
Ann Gall | 6 | 0 | Illness and loss of husband | no. |
Edward Humberston | 8 | 0 | Disabled from paralysis | no. |
John Hall | 6 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Daniel Hadland | 7 | 0 | Crippled | no. |
Benjamin Hayles | 9 | 0 | Idiocy | no. |
Joseph Hayles | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Sarah Hazel | 5 | 0 | Crippled | no. |
Ann Holt | 15 | 0 | Lameness | no. |
Rachael Higton | 10 | 0 | Old age and loss of memory | no. |
Catherine Harris | 17 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Mary Hammerton | 6 | 0 | Illness and infirmity | no. |
Susan Harvey | 6 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Elizabeth Hoy | 5 | 0 | Illness and infirmity | no. |
Elizabeth Jackson | 8 | 0 | Debility and nervousness | no. |
Ann Jenkins | 5 | 0 | Old age and illness | no. |
Charlotte Juniper | 7 | 0 | Unsound mind | no. |
George Jackson | 7 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Susan Knipe | 13 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
William Lidsey | 5 | 0 | Idiocy | no. |
Johanna Lyndhurst | 19 | 0 | Old age and illness | no. |
Sarah Long | 11 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Maskell | 10 | 0 | Crippled | no. |
William Mills | 6 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
James Milne | 6 | 0 | Unable to obtain work | no. |
Ann Mercer | 8 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Charlotte Morris | 9 | 0 | Old age and debility | no. |
Margaret Mason | 5 | 0 | Illness and old age | no. |
Elizabeth May | 5 | 0 | Imbecility | no. |
Elizabeth Mathews | 18 | 0 | Crippled | no. |
John Mailey | 6 | 0 | Old age | no. |
Elizabeth Nimmo | 8 | 0 | ditto | no. |
William Potter | 5 | 0 | Crippled | no. |
Joseph Poole | 9 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Ann Poole | 9 | 0 | ditto | no. |
Jonathan Pope | 11 | 0 | Idiocy | no. |
William Perry | 5 | 0 | Old age and illness | no. |
Eliza Plumb | 17 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Sarah Percy | 7 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Sarah Penfoid | 30 | 0 | Subject to fits | no. |
Henry Quinby | 5 | 0 | Old and unable to support himself by work | no. |
Thomas Rockall | 6 | 0 | Old age and deafness | no. |
Edward Daniel Rose | 6 | 0 | Disabled from a fall | no. |
John Sear | 25 | 0 | Nervous disorder | no. |
Thomas Savage | 20 | 0 | Unsound mind | no. |
Richard Smith | 6 | 0 | Old and unable to earn enough for support | no. |
William Smith | 5 | 0 | Disabled arm and ruptured | no. |
Susan Smithers | 6 | 0 | Illness and old age | no. |
Margaret Sollaway | 14 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Hannah Samuels | 8 | 0 | Illness and old age | no. |
Elizabeth Skinner | 5 | 0 | Old age and loss of husband | no. |
Thomas Taylor | 7 | 0 | Subject to fits | no. |
Mary Tucker | 7 | 0 | Old age and illness | no. |
Sarah Trotter | 6 | 0 | Imbecile | no. |
Mary Thompson | 20 | 0 | Unsound mind | no. |
Henry Warne | 12 | 0 | Paralysis | no. |
Michael Walsh | 6 | 0 | Old age and infirmity | no. |
Sarah Williams | 11 | 0 | Old age and crippled | no. |
Joshua Whitehead | 5 | 0 | Old age and unable to work | no. |
William Yandell | 5 | 0 | Illness and old age | no. |
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